Chapter 11: Collective Brainpower

"Why are we doing this?" Godzilla asked as he glanced around the table to the entirety of the Assembly of Assholes, all with their textbooks in front of them. "Because we're all too stupid to do these assignments on our own." Manda replied matter of fatly, "No, I mean why in MY room specifically? Goro said we should all get together to study, then two minutes later, before I could even reply, you're all at my door!" Godzilla shot back, "I was hoping to turn in early tonight.". "Same here." Caesar added, "I know it was last minute, but we're all struggling with at least one class that another of us is at least half decent at, so I figured we all might as well just get that out of the way." Goro explained, Godzilla gave it a moment of thought then just grunted and nodded his head, seeing the logic and deciding to let it go. "Baragon, that's not what a gull bladder does." Manda said as he handed the biology assignment back to the redhead after a brief review, who took it back and gave a silent nod before attempting to fix his answer, fatigue evident in his eyes. They had been at this for about two hours now, some had made more progress than others with Baragon and Varan the furthest behind. "I thought I would like engineering." Varan bemoaned, "But this is ridiculous, why are there so many different types of rivets?" "There's only eight you big baby, do you know how many different soil and rock types I have to memorize for Archaeology? To say nothing of Baragon, he's majoring in GEOLOGY!" Anguirus retorted, "The difference is that you two actually enjoy that stuff!" Varan shot back, "Fight, fight, fight, fight!" Rodan and Caesar chanted, "No no no, if they're gonna fight, then they do it outside, I'm not dealing with that shit this late at night!" Godzilla warned. This was how the night continued for the young men.

A similar situation was unfolding with the girls, as they too suffered through their assignments. "You're... surprisingly good at physics Mutosan." Moll commented as the tall girl tutored Scylla, "Huh? Oh, yeah. Boxing might be my passion but my mom always said I should have a fall back and, well, physics just kinda came easy ta me." "Seriously though, you could get some big jobs with that stuff." Lora stated, "Maybe but..." Mutosan responded in hesitation before Megaguirus interrupted, "Hey, if you love boxing then go for it, don't let anyone tell you different, especially not yourself." "Yeah, maybe I'm just overthinkin it right now." Mutosan answered. "Lora," Mothra said in obvious annoyance, "you need to redo EVERYTHING you wrote about the Hojo clan. Not only is it inaccurate, almost half of it is pure fiction." She continued as she handed the history essay back, "It's not that bad is it?" Lora asked, as Scylla looked over her shoulder and read one of the paragraphs before confirming what Mothra said, "Lora, as much as I like the idea, historically speaking, the Hojo samurais didn't have a giant combining robot named 'SaikyouHojo'.". With a scowl and grumble Lora, begrudgingly, started making the corrections. "let it out Moll, you don't have to suffer in silence." Mothra assured Moll as she saw her head hung low with an open textbook before her, "I absolutely DESPISE economics." Moll said after a deep breath, "If you don't mind me asking, why did you take it then?" Scylla asked in genuine confusion, "It's my sisters curse." Lora replied, "She always wants to be prepared, maybe a bit too much at times.", "It is true," Moll relented, "I may loath it, but I also believe it would be useful to have a complete grasp on it to inform any financial decisions I make in the future.". "HAHAHAHA! I finally finished!" Megaguirus declared as she slammed her Cultural Studies textbook shut, "Cool, Lora and I are like 10 seconds away from just completely giving up on our history essays." Answered a very tired Mutosan, nearly three and a half hours had gone by at this point, "Maybe it would be best if we wrapped things up for now." Mothra said, struggling to fight off her own fatigue, the girls quickly agreed and said their goodbyes as they backed up and left Mothra's room to return to their own for a well earned rest.

At the same time, Godzilla and the guys were doing the same, "Come on Anguirus, get your ass up and out of my room." Godzilla said as he nudged Anguirus awake from a half asleep state, "Huh, what? Oh, finally, wait for me bed, I'm coming." Anguirus mumbled drowsily as he stood up and packed his things. "I can't go on, just end my suffering!" Caesar pleaded as Manda dragged him by the shoulders to the door, "No, we have to stay strong, persevere! We have to- oh fuck this you're too heavy." Manda said as he dropped Caesar with a dull thud, who grumbled as he got back up. "Ugh, taking Spanish was a mistake." Rodan griped as he got up and stretched his arms, "No, really?" Goro commented, "Any one of us could have told you that." I'm telling you, I need some good news, anything to take my mind off of this and going back to class tomorrow." Varan pleaded "We don't have class tomorrow, it's Golden Week." Baragon said as everyone turned to look at him, Godzilla pulled out his phone to check the date, "Holy shit, he's right! We're saved!" Godzilla exclaimed. "Wait.." Baragon suddenly spoke again, a rare occurrence, "that means we could have done al of this bit by bit during the break instead of all at once tonight.", a moment of silence drifted across the young men before they all cried out in despair, "Why are we so bad at this?" Rodan asked no one in particular as they started to laugh at the situation in hindsight, "That's it, all of you get the Hell out, I'm going to bed." Godzilla said with a bit of humour in his voice, with that, they all said their goodnights and parted ways. During this however Godzilla never noticed a message he had received earlier that evening from his father, informing him that his sister would be staying with him for the first two days of the break due to their parents having work issues.

Notes: I had some technical issues while writing this chapter what with my keyboard crapping out throughout the first paragraph and some hard drive issues that ALMOST DELETED EVERYTHING I'D WRITTEN SO FAR, I managed to save almost everything, the original file for chapter 10 is just gone now unfortunately, but the rest is still here. I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and that you're all looking forward to finally meeting Godzilla's sister (someone in the comments of a previous chapter already made the admittedly obvious guess of who it is). As always, please let me know any comments questions, or criticism you have, just keep it respectful, and please do feel free to share links to this story around to anyone you think would like it, that's what it's here for after all.